Joshua T. Harris, 21, is being held at 201 Poplar on a dozen charges that include three counts of criminal attempted first-degree murder.

But according to the affidavit of complaint, after being taken into custody Harris told officials he remembered stabbing one victim and stealing her vehicle, but "did not remember the additional acts."

The series of events began at about 10:55 a.m. Sunday. Harris is accused of attacking a male shopper carrying a bag of groceries at a shopping center on Houston Levee at Macon in Cordova, stabbing the victim in the back of the neck with a butcher knife, said Earle Farrell, spokesman with the Shelby County Sheriff's Office.

The suspect then went to a nearby McDonald's parking lot.

An investigator inspects the scene Sunday near Southern and Greer where a stolen SUV crashed following a double stabbing in Cordova.(Photo: Earle Farrell, Shelby County Sheriff's Office)

There, after failed attempts to steal two other vehicles, the suspect was able to take a silver Infiniti QX50 SUV from the restaurant parking lot after repeatedly "stabbing" the female occupant of that vehicle, the affidavit said.

Then, while traveling west on Walnut Grove Road, Harris allegedly tried to run over the security guard at Hope Church, Farrell said.

The armed church security guard fired shots that disabled the stolen vehicle, leaving it incapable of traveling at more than 30 miles per hour, said Memphis Police Department officials.

Leading police on a slow-speed chase, the suspect crashed near Southern and Greer, west of the University of Memphis.

The victims were taken to the Regional Medical Center in non-critical condition.